Here in Michigan, we need to find something new to do. This economy is built upon manufacturing, which is rapidly fleeing for the lower cost regions of the world. It is a foundational and critical mistake to try to reverse this, as manufacturing will always seek the lowest costs … so unless you can provide them, you are going to lose this business eventually. Which means you shouldn’t invest tax dollars … my dollars … in helping such businesses “grow” here, as it inordinately transfers such tax burdens onto … wait for it … me and my fellow tax payers and small businesses.

Up about 20% over the last month. Gotta love it. :(

I have a white paper to get done by Sunday, an RFP response to get done by tomorrow, and a set of 3 quotes to do. Getting one done now, the rest are later tonight. No rest for the wicked.

Saw this linked to from /. . Its pretty clear that Oracle is taking a deep, long, hard look at all projects within Sun, figuring out what to keep, and what to abandon. Things which have no hope of revenue generation, or driving business in general are not likely long for this world. This brings us to OpenSolaris. This is the “open source” version of Solaris. I put it in quotes, as it may technically be an open source license in some manner of speaking, but it is fundamentally incompatible with GPL, with Artistic, with … you name it.

We need a systems support engineer. Have a look at our career page for more info.

more benchmark pr0n for an early spring evening. This is the day jobs’s slower storage target forcost optimized storage functions. root@dv4:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/big.file ... 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 68719476736 bytes (69 GB) copied, 155.851 s, 441 MB/s root@dv4:~# dd of=/dev/null if=/data/big.file ... 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 68719476736 bytes (69 GB) copied, 72.2219 s, 952 MB/s

I had heard that there were some … er … issues with latest round of Microsoft patches. I think I have a backup of this VM, so I can roll back the changes. Sheesh. And yes, bringing up repair does in fact hang it hard. [sigh]

This is ridiculous. They rely upon statistical methods, and misuse them to create a smoking gun, are called to the mat on it, and then … erm … if you use incorrect methods of analyzing your data, ones which admit biases and errors, its rather hard … no … fundamentally impossible … to make a reasonably valid claim that the “underlying data” (which you analyzed incorrectly) actually supports the conclusions which you reached.

Stent is out, kidney stones should be gone (modulo lithotripsy). Anesthetic really took it out of me on Monday, and I’d argue, on Tuesday. Happily, after Monday night, I was off of pain meds. I don’t like stuff that messes with my head, and what they gave me definitely messed with my head. I had to restrain myself from letting my internal dialog get out on more than one occasion. Less of a truth drug, more of an incomplete thought drug.

one siCluster, one specialty computing system. Added 1/8th of a PetaByte to our shipped storage. I do apologize, we’ve been busy. And, by all indications, we haven’t seen nuthin yet. Lots of business queued up for Q2, including several siClusters, several specialist computing clusters, and a number of deskside supers in the CX1 and Pegasus flavors. This doesn’t include the various Delta-V’s, JackRabbits, and other bits we have been shipping. Customers in many different fields, over fairly wide geographies.